John P. Bingham

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John P. Bingham, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. During the operations against the Hindenburg line Corporal Bingham left shelter and went forward, crawling on his hands and knees under heavy machine-gun fire to the aid of a wounded officer and a wounded soldier. With the assistance of another soldier he succeeded in dragging and carrying them back to the shelter of a trench.